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Versatile (linguine-istics)

Posted by signature103 on 22 November 2011

Versatile – The poetical board game by Corpora Brothers … in stores Xmas 2012.

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Internet security (linguine-istics)

Posted by signature103 on 28 October 2011

internet security – that warm fuzzy feeling one gets when one connects to the internet and finds the servers are not down. (See all)

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Sustainable economics (linguine-istics)

Posted by signature103 on 26 October 2011

Sustainable economics – what economists think is possible but environmentalists know is not.

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Derrida (linguine-istics)

Posted by signature103 on 25 October 2011

Derrida – a mispelling of ‘the reader’ by ignorant postmodern scholars.

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Lay monk (linguine-istics)

Posted by signature103 on 24 October 2011

Lay monk – a person who has taken the vow of not getting up.

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What are ‘linguine-istics’?

Posted by signature103 on 24 October 2011

Linguine-istics are humourous definitions of words and phrase. for example:

Linguine-istics – the study of humourous language that is just right (al dente).

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About Warren M. Tang

I am an applied linguistics researcher in language aquisition specializing in corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics. [more]

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